Karla Kovalova : Preface ...11 // Cheryl A. Wall : The Writer as Critic in the Emergence of Black Feminism ...17 // Nagueyalti Warren : Home Girls and Sister Outsider: The Roots of Black Feminist Literary Criticism ...29 // Karla Kovalova : New Directions and Contradictory Impulses: The Development of Black Feminist Literary Theory ...57 // Karla Kovalova : Literary Tradition and Black Aesthetics Revisited: Black Feminist Approaches to African American Literature in the Twenty-First Century ...85 // Heike Raphael-Hernandez : From White Gaze to Black Female Resistance: Street Lit and Popular Cultural Productions in Black Feminist Theorizing ...113 // Karla Kovalova : Blackness and Whiteness Within and Without the US. Context: Pushing the (National) Boundaries of Black Feminist Literary Criticism ...133 // Karla Kovalova : Afterword ...157 // Note on Contributors ...159 // Select Bibliography ...161 // Index ...173